savanna
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Every hunting season, wildlife authorities here set aside a specific number of the animals for hunting, drawing hundreds of wealthy hunters to this expanse of yellow savanna, rocky hillsides and cliffs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
The fall in the Cerrado, Brazil's savanna region, was 23.8%.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Deforestation also decreased in the Cerrado -- a vast, biodiverse savanna south of the Amazon.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Nonprofits and conservation groups estimate that there are today around 415,000 elephants in Africa, and the African savanna elephant is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
The country of the Zande is savanna mixed with riverine forest, beautiful country, where acacia trees cluster along the banks of seasonal rivers.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Capybaras aren’t native to Mexico; they are South American, occupying savannas and vegetated areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
The scale of the increase varied across the four different biomes surveyed, with the sharpest rise in tropical savannas.
From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026
The area sits at a unique ecological crossroads where the Amazon forest meets the Llanos de Moxos savannas.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 25, 2025
This giraffe lives in the open savannas and wooded grasslands of Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
Living on this artificial inland archipelago, native peoples ate a diet heavy in fish, which migrate and spawn in the flooded savannas.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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